The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-10
FACTS ABOUT THE GAR.
incidents In His stormy Life Not
Generally Known.

incidents In His stormy Life Not
Generally Known.
While the private and public life OF
every other European monarch has fire.
quently given the journalists pen
occasion to cover a ream OF paper.
more or less, Alexander Alexandra
witch. of Russia, has kept the modern
hierophants, to whom every secret Is
known and who are initiated into
every mystery Of life, pretty well at
bay. What has crept into print about
him, off and on. has uniformly been
married by inaccuracies. This is easily
explained. The present car is not
readily approached, and since his adj
vent to the throne especially he has
been hedged about so thoroughly that
even the intrepid gatherer Of news
has often lost scent before reaching
him. Alexander LII. saw the frosty
sun of the Neva first on March 10 Feb.
26 by the Russian calendar), 1915, rs
the second son of Alexander H., and
was educated with his elder brother,
the heir prcsumptive. Nicolas, by two
voars his sen or. The education OF
these two princes was put into the
hands of Count S. Strogonow, but their
real ..gonverneur' was Privy Council
or Titow, recalled for tine purpose from
his post as Russian ambassador at the
court of Stuttgart. In Titow's place
State Councillor Won Grimm was APP
pointed in 1858, when Alexander was
IL years of age. From that time on
the boy drank daily deep from the
fount OF German learning. as nearly
all his tutors were professors OF that
nationality. Grimm. however, in spite
of his German name, was an arch
Russian at heart and the early
influence of Titow. Muscovite of the
old school to the finger-tips, had sunk
deep into the youthful princes soul.
Grimm, twenty years before, had
guided the education of the Prince
Constantine Nicolaiewitch. The militia
~ training was intrusted to an adjutant
general residing in the winter palace.
the religious instruction to learned
old pope, and State Secretary Baron
Modest Korff, author of several books
on Russian story, taught the high
born twain all of Russian statec-aft,
h story, and law they were DESTROYS to
learn. On April "a, 1865, the death OF
the Czaorwitch INTERVIEWED at Nice, and
Alexander. then just attaining his ma
jority, was solemnly declared the her
to the throne. In the following year,
on Nov 9, 1866, he welded with much
pomp the Danish lady who had been
his late brothers fiancee, Princess
Dagmar, King Christian TX. S daughter
BAPTIZED in the Greek orthodox faith.
she received the names Marie Fcodo-
rowna in exchange for her former ones
Marie Sophie Frederika Dagmar.
This princess. rs amiablo and accom-
plished as she is beautiful, was born on
Nov &c, 1S47, and was consequently
her spouse's junior. by two years and
eight months. The young consort OF
the Russian heir came from a court
where the loss of two beautiful prov
inces. Just swallowed up by Prussia.
was mourned with tears OF lmpotent
wrath, and where pious William by the
Spree had been daily mathematical.
What wonder then that the beauti-
full bride made her young husband.
then in the flush of enthusiasm
so common 10 heir-presumptives,
sharer in her mortal antipathy to
the Hohenzollern dynasty. The palpa-
BILE effect of these uxorious lessons was
,, not long in coming. The prince within
few months was the acknowledged
head OF the ant-German party at the
court, at that time and up to hour oil
Alexander lis death divided into the
old Russian and the Russian or German
parties. In Berlin they were well-lr-
! formed about this. and Bismarck. to-
gether with MS master, INDUCED IN dire
forebodings as TO what would happen
when Alexander ii. should close hi:
ewes. The war of 1901 came, and
the flames burst out afresh with renew
ed vigor. The car and his immediate
encourage we're in full sympathy will
Germany at that time. and especial
pains we're taken 10 emphasize this state
Of feeling. The young Alexander. OF
) the other hand. had well-organizet
: following Of his own. whose sympa
thies were strongly in another groove
The inevitable result was that these
,ympathies aud antipathies frequently
,jashed, and that snubs and the ecu
! direct" were dealt out very LIBERAL,
and evenly distributed during thu
whole duration OF the Franco-Germal
,onfiict and for sometime after to thu
representatives OF Germany as well a
: France. Personal encounters even an'
iuels ensued. and Alexander ii. ha'
rather a busy time Of il trying I
sllay the outraged feelings OF this EN-
bassador and Of that attache or sec